ABSTRACT FIGURES
Erasing Our Humanity
I created this painting for the Art and Conflict show that dealt with the complicated issue of speaking about the devastation of war through art. This piece deals with the psychological anguish that many soldiers have to endure during and after their deployment. Many people only think of the bodily sacrifice our soldiers make but many also suffer emotional and mental trauma that cannot be seen from the outside. This piece expresses a soldier losing the humanity that has lived in him for so long and the beginning of a long journey to recovering it once again.
Available for $275.00
Original Piece Size: 24"x40"
Medium: Oil on Panel
Beyond Our Vision
This is a painting about perseverance and how important it is for us to envision our future with clarity and optimism. It can be easy to remain optimistic about your goals when things are going your way but true character is built them adversity strikes and our dream is blocked, distorted or challenged. It is up to us to stay true to ourselves and remain stubborn and idealistic with our dream always out in front of us.
Available for $250.00
Original Piece Size: 8"x10"
Medium: Oil on Panel (Framed)
Towards Light
*SOLD* This piece illustrates a modern perspective on women. Women are intelligent, thoughtful and compassionate beings who deserve respect and understanding. The women of this world owe a great deal to the women of the past but the journey is not yet over, please keep striving for what you deserve with voices that are loud and proud.
Original Piece Size: 14"x11"
Medium: Oil on Panel
Trapped in Light
This piece involved an experimental style change that resulted in a unique mood. "Trapped in Light" illustrates the pressures of playing a social role when you feel as if there is a constant spotlight on you. This spotlight is the social expectations of our society and it tells you what to say what to think and how to react to other people. This spot light makes us feel as if we are performing for each other and just trying not to go off script.
Available for $250.00
Original Piece Size: 12"x12"
Medium: Oil on Panel (Framed)
Loss of Singularity
*SOLD* This piece deals with the strains of the outside world and how they pull at and challenge our inner being. There are many people and circumstances in life that tell us to do just about anything but listen to ourselves. We are asked to consider logic, reason and the opinions of other people. But we are never taught to listen to what we truly feel. I encourage you to calculate your own internal compass and allow it to guide you above all else.
Original Piece Size: 11"x14"
Medium: Oil on Panel
Watching Over
*SOLD* This painting is dedicated to those who have left us. In some way we all leave a mark on this earth by living on it, our thoughts, decisions and actions all leave microscopic impacts that help shape the collective reality. When another life is completed they humbly return the body that they had borrowed and leave this reality. We feel the emptiness that is left behind but the ones we have lost will always live in our hearts with freedom.
Original Piece Size: 20"x16"
Medium: Oil on Canvas
The Last Moment
*SOLD* This new robot piece enhances the human nature of these robotic beings and shows that humanity can exist in the most unlikely places. When we have trouble understanding things that are different than us it is important for us to empathize and look at the world through their eyes. There are many things in this world that can seem strange or foreign and if we let go of our prejudice we can move forward with an open heart.
Original Piece Size: 24"x30"
Medium: Oil on Panel
Desert Walkers
*SOLD* This piece illustrates the momentary nature of man on this earth and the struggle through his life journey.
Original Piece Size: 20"x20"
Medium: Oil on Panel
Cloaked
This piece illustrates humanities connection to nature and how it is engrained into our identity. Our separation from nature is only as big as we make it.
Original Piece Size: 24"x30"
Medium: Oil on Panel
Vulnerability
This piece explores the human ability to let go and be vulnerable with nature and allow it to comfort us and give us energy. The natural world exists with it's own ebb and flow and it can be beneficial for us to observe and learn from it.
Available for $250.00
Original Piece Size: 24"x36"
Medium: Oil on Panel
Fracture
This piece illustrates an emotional emptiness that can be felt from loss. This emotional state can warp our surrounding landscapes and change how we perceive the world.
Original Piece Size: 16"x20"
Medium: Oil on Panel
Never Alone
*SOLD* This piece explores the comfort one can feel when surrounded by nature in times of despair and turmoil. Raw emotional reactions to nature can feed the soul and heal the heart.
Original Piece Size: 12"x12"
Medium: Oil on Panel
Moment
*SOLD* This piece was an exploration of figures in the midst of a dance. The loose nature of the brushwork is meant to illustrate the motion of bodies and the exhilarating emotions that accompany human contact.
Original Piece Size: 18"x28"
Medium: Oil on Panels (2)
Among the Roots
*SOLD* This piece developed out of an earlier piece called Entangled because I wanted to create an environment for a figure to exist in. This person is protected within this abstract realm that can be seen as roots, water or branches. .
Original Piece Size: 12"x12"
Medium: Oil on Panel
Mother Nature
This was a significant piece in my conceptual merging of humans and landscapes because of its balance of the representational and non-representational. The landscape breathes in and out of the abstract world allowing for emotion to exist at the forefront.
Original Piece Size: 24"x24"
Medium: Oil on Panels (4)
Hold On
This piece was a present for my girlfriend. In it I was trying to imitate the loose brush technique that I used in "Moment." I would say I completed this goal considering she did not recognize the figures until I pointed them out to her.
Original Piece Size: 18"x24"
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Robot Father and Son
*SOLD* I created this piece for Little Machine Brewery in Denver. In it, I wanted to portray human qualities in robotic forms and convey an emotional connection between the two figures.
Original Piece Size: 24"x36"
Medium: Oil on Panels
Urgent
This piece is a continuation of "Robot Father and Son." In it i wanted to show more of the post- apocalyptic environment that these robots live in as well as a more urgent moment between the two figures.
Original Piece Size: 12"x18"
Medium: Oil on Canvas